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I've just seen a corporate intranet portal that loads web version of outlook into the same browser window as the pages you are looking at, just so that you do not lose visibility of your emails.

For crying out loud, we've had magic technology of "seeing two applications side by side" for several decades now, it's called separate application windows. Now we're reinventing even this inside the web browser.

I bet the genius who came up with this even got a raise.

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in reply to ticho

There is a massive trend in admin/dashboard designs to build a single system overview as a composition of "smaller applications". Placing browser windows next to each other or on different monitors won't make it anymore.

I guess the goal is to assume control (as a dashboard designer) of the user experience. Don't allow them to compose it inefficiently!

in reply to Martin Wenisch

@mwenisch I see this more as a misfeature intended for dumb managers using smartphones and tablets, but who knows what goes in the minds of psychopaths in Redmond.